Third Reich Definition 1 st Reich Roman Empire

Third Reich- Definition 1 st Reich = Roman Empire 2 nd Reich= defeated in WWI 3 rd Reich= Hitler’s German master race rule for 1000 years

Third Reich fights the Great Depression • Public Works programs- build highways, housing, replant forests = jobs for people • Crash program to rearm Germanyrebuild its army • Schemed to unite Germany and Austria

Totalitarian State- controls all life A. SS troops enforce Hitler’s will B. Secret police- Gestapo C. Youth Groups- Hitler Youth 1. Physical fitness- camps/hikes 2. Books rewritten to reflect Nazi racial views 3. Spy on & report on family/neighbors who say anti-Nazi comments

The Peoples’ Radio (Volks: empfanger”

Volkswagen: The Peoples’Car

Purge German Culture 1. Condemned modern artcorrupted by Jews 2. Condemned Jazzhad African roots 3. Glorified German music/tales 4. Despised Christianity“weak, flabby” 5. Closed Catholic schools, churches 6. Replaced religion with racial creed 7. Multimedia Blitz: radio, film, records

Anti-Semitism : • PP from Germany Nuremberg Laws- 1935 Jews could not: 1. Be citizens 2. Marry non-Jews 3. Attend or teach at German schools 4. Practice law or medicine 5. Publish books Nazis: • Beat, rob Jews • Incite mobs to attack Jews

Night of the Broken Glass- “Kristallnacht” • Nov. 7, 1938 German diplomat in Paris shot by young Jew whose parents had be beaten in Germany • Hitler uses it as excuse to stage attack on all Jews • Nov. 9&10, Nazis led mobs to attack Jewish homes, stores synagogues in Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia • Plans made for “FINAL SOLUTION” to Jewish problem: THE HOLOCAUST